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I enjoyed Multiversity a lot as a funny book. I'm a Grant M Doom Patrol fan and think his best nonsense is the deliberate stuff.

But, Bleeding cool gave it a pretty harsh review. Said Morrison lifted most of his ideas from current goings-on at Marvel. I haven't been reading the Marvel Avenger mags so it was new-ish to me.

I mean, the idea of all these parallel earths has been done before anyway, since like 1963 when Justice League of America had three earths. Grant just gives things a funny take. It's all nonsense, but funny nonsense.

My LCS owner and the guys who don't like joke books are coming down on it.

It was alright. Same ground Morrison has tread before, with alternate takes on superheroes and big meta-textual threats to reality. He's been doing it since his Animal Man run. I'm hoping the rest of the series is more about life on these different worlds of the Multiverse than the over-arcing plot of everything being in danger.

"Why are you pointing your screwdrivers like that? They're scientific instruments, not water pistols.""Oh, the pointing again! They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?""Are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about?"""Timey" what? "Timey wimey"?"

IvCNuB4 wrote:The Old Doctor is Cat-Scratch ?Well that explains a lot :lol:

Stephen Day wrote:The stand out character for me was the new Captain Carrot.

Not bad, but Super PoUS was better.

Hell, that's the only good thing in a sense out of the whole thing. A Superman that read AS Superman AND had a new twist - Brainiac the iBuckle.

But Carrot was kind of fun. Nothing like the original, but.. what the hell is these days?

"Why are you pointing your screwdrivers like that? They're scientific instruments, not water pistols.""Oh, the pointing again! They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?""Are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about?"""Timey" what? "Timey wimey"?"

IvCNuB4 wrote:The Old Doctor is Cat-Scratch ?Well that explains a lot :lol:

The Old Doctor wrote:It's third time around for this plot for me. So bored with it.

What are the other two? Do you mean the original Crisis on Infinite Earths?

But, I agree the plot is nothing to write home about. The art is good and the nonsense humor gave me a chuckle. I want to see Grant's "forgotten humanism" that came out in Doom Patrol--a lot of satire on the "bad things in the real world" and characters struggling to cope (Cliff, Crazy Jane, Dorothy). But, I take it that Multiversity will be satire for the sake of satire. The "gentry", the guys on Bleeding Cool interpret, is a metatextual poke at IP holders and corporate owners, but it's hardly a message to make one reflective and glazy-eyed. It's a lampoon. For fun. I'm having fun--I didn't have fun with his serious, over-wrought Infinite Crisis stuff, but as stated am a huge fan of his Doom Patrol run, so I am amused.

TimH wrote:What are the other two? Do you mean the original Crisis on Infinite Earths?

But, I agree the plot is nothing to write home about. The art is good and the nonsense humor gave me a chuckle. I want to see Grant's "forgotten humanism" that came out in Doom Patrol--a lot of satire on the "bad things in the real world" and characters struggling to cope (Cliff, Crazy Jane, Dorothy). But, I take it that Multiversity will be satire for the sake of satire. The "gentry", the guys on Bleeding Cool interpret, is a metatextual poke at IP holders and corporate owners, but it's hardly a message to make one reflective and glazy-eyed. It's a lampoon. For fun. I'm having fun--I didn't have fun with his serious, over-wrought Infinite Crisis stuff, but as stated am a huge fan of his Doom Patrol run, so I am amused.

Yup, it's CoIE and Infinite Crisis all over again. Hell, you can throw in Zero Hour too when I think about it.

The art is good, but then most comics these days are good that way. I'd rather just get more Doom Patrol from him. Loved that stuff back when it was new. I'm not as it's really just a cheap soap boxing wrapped in unoriginality all around. Morrison has backslide into being a bad lazy writer again... but then as some have pointed out, he's always be a plagiarist to one degree or another, so...

But really, very little if any good is coming out of this thing. At best, it's a time killer.

"Why are you pointing your screwdrivers like that? They're scientific instruments, not water pistols.""Oh, the pointing again! They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?""Are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about?"""Timey" what? "Timey wimey"?"

IvCNuB4 wrote:The Old Doctor is Cat-Scratch ?Well that explains a lot :lol:

The Old Doctor wrote:Yup, it's CoIE and Infinite Crisis all over again. Hell, you can throw in Zero Hour too when I think about it.

The art is good, but then most comics these days are good that way. I'd rather just get more Doom Patrol from him. Loved that stuff back when it was new. I'm not as it's really just a cheap soap boxing wrapped in unoriginality all around. Morrison has backslide into being a bad lazy writer again... but then as some have pointed out, he's always be a plagiarist to one degree or another, so...

But really, very little if any good is coming out of this thing. At best, it's a time killer.

I really disagree. Its a 8 issues 2 of which are bookends. If anything its more like 7 Soldiers. Each issue is self contained. There is an overarching plot though. The different worlds communicate through comics. Each world is a comic to another. I'm loving it.

Part of the idea is that if DC weren't idiots they would create a series out of some of the one shots. That actually was one of the ideas behind it according to Morrison.

avengingtitan wrote:I really disagree. Its a 8 issues 2 of which are bookends. If anything its more like 7 Soldiers. Each issue is self contained. There is an overarching plot though. The different worlds communicate through comics. Each world is a comic to another. I'm loving it.

Part of the idea is that if DC weren't idiots they would create a series out of some of the one shots. That actually was one of the ideas behind it according to Morrison.

Great, so it's a repeat of Seven Soldiers too.

Great that you love it and more power to that, but for me... not working.

A Super PoUS series. Captain Carrot too. Those would be nice.

"Why are you pointing your screwdrivers like that? They're scientific instruments, not water pistols.""Oh, the pointing again! They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?""Are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about?"""Timey" what? "Timey wimey"?"

IvCNuB4 wrote:The Old Doctor is Cat-Scratch ?Well that explains a lot :lol: